A project is similar to a Dreamweaver site except that all projects are stored in a single location on your hard disk called a Workspace. If you already store your Dreamweaver sites in a single folder, sharing Dreamweaver sites with Studio is easy -- just choose your sites folder as your default workspace and then create projects for each site. Here's how to do it:
- Choose File -> Switch Workspace -> Other...
- Browse to the folder in which your Dreamweaver sites are stored (such as C:\sites) and click OK. Aptana Studio will restart.
- Choose File -> New -> Project
- Choose Default Web Project under Aptana Projects and click Next.
- IMPORTANT: Give your project the same name as the folder that contains the site. For example, if your site is in a folder called freeze, name the project "freeze" too. The path in the Location field (which is populated automatically based on the project name) should match the path to the Local Root Folder in your Dreamweaver site.
- Click Next.
- Select the Ajax libraries you'd like to use in your project and click Next.
- Select any or all of the Jaxer capabilities to to add your project, if desired, and click Next.
- Click Finish.
Studio will automatically show all the files and folders inside your site in the Project view, and it will open index.html for editing (or add a blank index.html if none yet exists). The Ajax library files you added will be in the lib folder at the site root. Repeat the steps for each site you want to edit in Studio.